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...extremely confusing issue. Foreigners aren't allowed to own U.S. television stations, which is why Rupert Murdoch had to become an American citizen to create the Fox network. Is owning a TV station a greater threat to national security than managing a port? Let me make a fearless prediction here: the ports controversy will soon turn into an even greater battle over U.S. defense contracts going to foreign-owned companies, including-as the Washington Post reported last week-Dubai International Capital, which wants to buy a company that makes components for U.S. tanks and military aircraft. Lawrence Korb, a defense...
...industry ritual known as development season, new technologies are changing the way they do business. With high-quality video available on 200 million PCs via broadband, 200 million 3-GB mobile phones, an estimated 4 million iPods and other devices, the Big Four networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are scrambling for ways to deliver content over a panoply of platforms. They are also scrambling to figure out a business model that can predictably deliver profits in this variegated market...
...pronouncements and a flurry of press releases. CBS boasts it broke new ground by selling Survivor on its website; NBC Sports trumpets that it will make $6 million from its online Olympics coverage (take that, Simon Cowell!); Disney-ABC says it will stream many of its series for free; Fox boss Rupert Murdoch remarks that his Internet services will generate $350 million in revenues this year...
...modern Harvard has muddled these simple classifications. There are gays in the Fox who support Students for Marriage Equality, but are appalled at the thought of ending legacy admissions. There are debutantes who still “come out” to society at galas, but who also do not mind hooking up randomly on weekends. Twenty-first century Cantabrigians can be proponents of conservatism without fitting into Wisse’s archetype of conservatives...
...interviews, high school seniors said that regardless of the tumult that has surrounded Summers, a Harvard education is still a Harvard education. “Academics, which is the primary reason I would attend Harvard, are not affected by Larry Summers,” said one applicant, Jeff N. Fox, a senior at Randolph High School in New Jersey.“The professors are still the professors, the classes still the classes,” he added.An already-admitted member of the Class of 2010, Elena D. Butler, now a senior at San Francisco University High School, said...